The Mercurian: Specimens Under a Mercurian Sun

Mercury is supposed to be lifeless rock and blistering heat, a place where men go only to carve uranium from a hostile crust and then hurry home. But when a miner returns from the molten surface carrying an impossible living specimen, curiosity turns to catastrophe and the ship's crew begins to fall into a terrifying, motionless trance. In a matter of minutes, a hardened space crew becomes a gallery of frozen figures, their ship quietly hijacked by a being that does not see them as people a...